Tarpon Nole any recommendations to fish around longboat key from kayak or maybe land? going for a longish weekend in june
should be snook on the beach, especially if you are closer to passes. Tarpon also. that’s a little south of where I fish, but I can drop you some spots a little north around Anna Maria, though they’re more winter/spring spots. Should have redfish remind me when it gets closer. Glow DOA shrimp, white bucktails, or white soft plastics for snook. They’re closer to shore than you think they will be.
yeah, that should be good for snook. Walk the beach in the morning before it gets crowded. They’ll be right in the wash where the waves break. It’s more sight casting, but you can blind cast as well like 45degree angles from shore if that makes sense? If you can find a place to launch kayak, those canals and docks on intracoastal at night would be great. If you can launch kayak on beach, I’d try for tarpon
Went to another spot I've got to often in the past. Like other spots on this river, the path and many of the good spots have trees in the middle of them now. Was able to catch some smaller ones on dry flies though.
Went out Friday for a few hours to take her. Full moon this week. Im hoping to get into a school of them like I did last year.
My toddler is a blast right now. When he gets mad at me he tells me to go to work first because I work from home. When I tell him I don’t have to work he the tells me to go fishing.
Haven't been able to get on a good school of them yet. Hopefully going the next three days starting this evening, tomorrow morning before Tennessee game, and Friday morning. This from a few hours on Monday.
Ok. Now this time I'm 99% sure the water won't be freezing over again. I hope. Fought the wind for about an hour yesterday to scratch the itch. Had 1 largie follow my crank into the shallows. Hoping to hit it hard on Saturday.
Put all the public reef coordinates in MS on a micro sd card and imported all of them. Can bounce around artificial reefs for snapper/cobia/mangroves -probably 100 of them. Probably another 50 inshore reefs. Have all the rigs in the gulf on the card too. Not gonna import rigs till I need them due to clutter.
wife is not a fan of night fishing and closest docks are a really shitty launch and area with drunk boaters leaving the restaurants. that being said when I hit longboat key I’ll probably night fish for snook. My cousin who used to be a guide said the area I’m staying has the biggest snook he has ever seen but they are still extremely finicky eaters.
tight. I could use a free ride to Chandy! Gump I scouted the inshore reefs for you. They’re full of trout. Hit ‘em up before they leave and/or the deer hunters get their summer boats cleaned up
wanted to go tomorrow, but saw the full moon and also got a bad report from yesterday. Pressure washing the house tomorrow it is
I went yesterday afternoon and probably fished 7 miles of creeks. I got that one red above and missed the biggest fucking red I have ever seen. I got hung on a oyster bed and it popped off and had a small oyster on it. As I was pull it up a huge as red tried to eat oyster and all at the surface and I missed it because I’d the oyster in the tip. Was massive. not as massive as this fucker. Though
fuck that. Guys kayak down out of flamingo where there are crocs that would eat that gator as an appetizer…..
probably not. I should have phrased it as the biggest one I’ve seen in a back creek. Was probably 35ish. I’ve actually never caught a bull red during the run but have seen them.
That picture is grainy bc I zoomed in. earlier I had a manatee scare the shit out of me bc I saw grass moving and thought it was a red rooting. Few cast and nothing so I kayaked up and boom huge tail slapping the water next to me. Had my heart racing.
Saw this guy down there last month. Gators will always make me more nervous because because they get much more humanized
Very, until he jumped in the water. Gators are cool when I can see them, scary as hell when you can’t
was told behind mote marine, otter key and long bar. Snook on beach before crowds and docks at night.
None of the bait shops have live shrimp yet. Tooled around with some artificial but mostly we were just bayou cruising yesterday. Took the wife on a bayou cruise today as well. Still pretty windy, always is in March. Was small craft advisory yesterday morning.
It’s wild because shrimp is all that’s really available here in winter. They’ll have pins sometimes and if we get some swarm spells pilchards, but shrimp are our main winter bait Glad new boat is working out
Thanks. Shrimp is available for a decent part of the winter. This is probably the worst time for it right now. Usually can at least get bull minnows. Our typical bait are (1) shrimp-probably best overall bait (2) croaker-awesome for snapper, mangroves, and cobia. Also for big trout. (3) bull minnow-trout and redfish will eat them (4) eel-cobia love them (5) small catfish-cobia love them
Went out for a few hours today and did manage to land about 8 fish and get the inshore slam. Wind was kinda crazy. I did manage to foul hook a damn manatee trolling to the a fishing hole. Luckily I was able to track it down and the hook fell out. Talk about a screaming drag
whats a bull minnow? old people say best tarpon bait is a hard head cat with spines cut off….not sure that’s worth the effort
Ppl say to buy hard head catfish from bait shop and cut off spines for cobia . F that. Idk exactly what a bull minnow is from a species perspective but that's what they call them. They are smaller than croaker but hardy little dudes. They are pretty good when shrimp aren't available. I go one streaks where I just fish matrix shad on a jighead. Forgot to list dead bait: cigar minnows , pogey, and squid are great for snapper.
in FL a bull minnow is either known as a top minnow, mud minnow, or a finger mullet, depending on where you're fishing.